Game apparatus



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A. C. HUNSBERGER,4 GAME APPARATUS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ABRAM O. HUNSBERGER, OF PORTLAND, PENNSYLVANIA.

GAME APPARATUS. f

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 486,471, dated November22, 1892.

Application sled March 19. 1892.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAM O. HUNSBERGER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Portland, in the county of Northampton and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in GameApparatus; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to a game apparatus designed for amusement andcalculated to tax the skill and judgment of the players.

The invention comprises a board divided into sections in a peculiarmanner by different-colored lines and two sets of moving pieces, eachhaving a principal piece or commander, which when the game is startedare placed on opposite ends of a line drawn across the board.

My invention consists, further, of certain details of construction andarrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed outin the claim. The game may be played on a table-top, board, and otherplane surface which is properly inscribed with the diagram.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a view illustrating the piecesin position on the chart or diagram, said moving pieces being in theirrespective positions at the commencement of the game; and Fig. 2 is asimilar view showing the position the moving pieces may assume after thegame has been played for some length of time.

Referring to the drawings,in which like letters of reference denotecorresponding parts in both of the figures, A designates the board,which is inscribed with a number of lines, forming a chart o1` diagramused for the purpose of carrying out my invention.

The outer rectangle a of the chart is preferably of the shape shown, andthe board may correspond to this shape of the rectangle, if desired; butI do 4not care to limit myself to this particular form. This rectangle ais di. vided vertically and horizontally by the meet- Serial No.425,509. (No model.)

ing lines a a, the former line a being arranged adjacent to one of thelong sides of the rectangle a and the latter line a dividing saidrectangle, preferably, into two equal parts. At the intersection B ofthese two right-angled lines are two diagonal lines h b', extending tothe outer opposite corners of the chart and across the angles formed bythe lines a a. a number of concentric rectangles O, the angles orcorners of which are arranged at the diagonal lines Z) b. One side c ofthe outer rectangle forms one side, aso, of each of the otherrectangles.

In the accompanying drawingslhave shown six rectangles; bntthe numbermay be varied at will, and the outer three rectangles are preferablycolored red, or only the dividing-lines between the rectangles may becolored, the same being indicated in the drawings by single and doublelines, respectively. Thus the red lines constitute the field of one setof men Aand the blue lines the eld of the other set.

In playing this game two sets of moving pieces, designating soldiers,are employed, and they are arranged on the board at the intersection orangles of the lines, as indicated by the light and dark pieces D E. Eachside has a commander d e, respectively, which is placed on the board, asshown in the drawings. When the play is in progress, the pieces aremoved, as in the well-known game of checkers, on the lines forward oraround at intersecting points, the pieces of one set D being movedinward to the position of the commander e and those of the set E beingmoved outward to the outer rectangle a and the position of the commanderd; but none of the pieces are moved backward, except the commanders, whomay move in any direction until the pieces have reached the position ofthe commander of the other side, when they are promoted to the sameprivilege as the commander. As the play is progressing 011 three sidesof the board or chart, the interest in the game is consequentlyincreased and the skill of the players is correspondingly taxed todefeat each other. When all the men on either side are captured byjumping,77 as in the game of checkers, the game is won and lost.

Within the outer rectangle a are 1o moving pieces distributed at theintersections of said lines and embracing the two arbitrarily-movablepieces d e, substantially as described.

In testxnonywhereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ABRAM C. HUNSBERGER.

Witnesses:

CHARLES K. STIER, PHILIP J. ALBERT.

